Model Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 April 1988. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Model Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-newel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 April 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Model Farmhouse, Louse Lane, Rattlesden, IP30 0SY
- OS grid reference
- TL 977 562
- Coordinates
- 52.16908, 0.88995
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Model Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century or earlier. It has one storey and attics, featuring a three-cell plan with a lobby entrance. The structure is timber-framed and plastered, topped with a thatched roof that includes one eyebrow casement dormer. There is an axial chimney, with the shaft rebuilt in the mid-20th century using red brick and featuring four diagonally-set square shafts. The house has small-pane casements from the 19th or 20th century and a boarded door at the lobby entrance. Although the interior has not been examined, the low and wide profile of the house suggests it may have a medieval core.
Local climate
Model Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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